Memories of World War II and Its Aftermath: By a Little Girl Growing Up in Berlin
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0976032864 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Memories of World War II" according to Arlene Silvestri. I have not finished this yet but it is such an informative piece of writing it should be required reading for high school. We have no idea of the conditions and horror of war and it's aftermath. Especially the teenagers today. She writes with such simplicity and acceptance. It was horrible but we had this little bright spot and wasn't that wonderful, is the essence of the book. These were not Jews or Gypsies or any other undesirable people, they were normal German citizens who suffered greatly and bore it all and emerged into a world populated with. terrific insightful autobiography On August 25, 19terrific insightful autobiography A Customer On August 25, 1940 five years old Inge hears the most frightening thunderstorm of her young life. The next day the Berlin resident learns from her friend six years old Reinhard Engel that the thunder was caused by a British air raid on the city, the first of many to come. From those roots of war on the home front, Inge Stanneck Gross provides a first hand account of growing up during World War II in Berlin and the surrounding areas (her mother relocated them to avoid the constant bombings). Ms. Gross provides a deep account of starvation and fears . 0 five years old Inge hears the most frightening thunderstorm of her young life. The next day the Berlin resident learns from her friend six years old Reinhard Engel that the thunder was caused by a British air raid on the city, the first of many to come. From those roots of war on the home front, Inge Stanneck Gross provides a first hand account of growing up during World War II in Berlin and the surrounding areas (her mother relocated them to avoid the constant bombings). Ms. Gross provides a deep account of starvation and fears . "A Child's Survives in War in Berlin" according to David L. Rutherford. This review is based on the first volume of Inge Stanneck Gross's biography, which covers her life as a child in Berlin during and immediately after the Second World War. My reaction, in simple terms, - what a story! I could hardly put the book down.I believe it is the first account I have read of the civilian aspects of the War from the German point of view. What makes this book so absorbing is the amount of detail Inge is able to recall for her descriptions of the people and neighbourhoods of the once-beautiful Berlin, and the nearby villages whe
An absolutely riveting story of survival against all odds, and describes what freedom means in language one can fully understand. -- Harriet Klausner- #1 ReviewerVery highly recommendedbrings vividly to life the perspective of a small child, thefight to keepalive during wartime. -- Gail Halvorsen, The Berlin Candy BomberI have read many booksbut none that expresses so well the human dimension over such a period of time. -- Midwest Book Review, May, 2005-James A Cox, Editor-in-chief. -- Foreword by
On the night of Sunday, August 25, 1940, there had been a terrible thunderstorm, and the following morning her playmate, Reinhard Engel, a year older, told her it was something called an "air raid." The British had bombed Berlin in their first major raid. After the Berlin Airlift, which eventually broke Stalin’s blockade, she describes her hometown’s gradual recovery and her own experiences growing into a teenager but with adult responsibilities. Inge recalls from the vantage of a little girl of modest means what it felt like to grow up in Berlin with war around her; of the hasty evacuations each night to the cellar bomb shelter, and the emotional impact of going to school the next morning wondering which of her classmates would not show up that day–or ever!– followed by wondering when her own time would be up. Eventually her mother took Inge and her younger brother to a small village fifty miles from Berlin to escape the bombings. Toward the end of the war that village was also bombed, and later overrun by the Russians. Most a
company. Fortuitously her first job was with a tiny perfume importer that became the agents for The Mennen Company, a U.S. They currently reside in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. The following year she married her husband; the couple subsequently adopted two children. Beginning in 1940, the details of her life for the next decade are hauntingly portrayed in her memoir, Memories o